This site is intended to encourage and facilitate research and study into abolition and reform in Western New York in the early and mid 19th Century.

Questions and suggestions for additions should be addressed to Christopher Densmore, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 or by e-mail to cdensmo1@swarthmore.edu

Note: This site was originally created by Christopher Densmore while he was serving as University Archivist at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN WESTERN NEW YORK

Studying the URR in Western New York

Fugitive Slave Case, Lockport, 1823

Fugitive Slave Case, Buffalo, 1835

American Anti-Slavery Society: Western New York Branches, 1837-38

Attempt to Free Slave, Niagara Falls (NY), 1847

Fugitive Slave Case, Buffalo, 1847

Mass Meetings of Colored Citizens to Protest the Fugitive Slave Law, Buffalo, 1850

Meeting to Protest the Fugitive Slave Law, Collins Center, NY, 1850

Fugitive Slave Case, Buffalo, 1851 (Daniel)
 
Betrayal of a Fugitive, Buffalo, 1857

Catharine Harris and the Underground Railroad in Jamestown, New York

Underground Railroad Agents in Western New York

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN WESTERN NEW YORK
 
Quakers in Western New York

Quakers and Abolition in Western New York

Quaker Meeting Houses in  New York State
 
Quakers and the Early Woman's Rights Movement in Central New York

THE FRIENDS OF HUMAN PROGRESS OF WATERLOO (JUNIUS) AND NORTH COLLINS, NEW YORK

The Friends of Human Progress or Progressive Friends, grew out of controversies among Hicksite Quakers in the 1840s over involvement in the abolitionist movement and questions of church organization. In Western New York, an annual meeting held in the Junius Friends Meeting House, north-west of Waterloo, New York, was held from 1849 to the 1880s. A Friends of  Human Progress group, later closely identified with Spiritualism, began in the North Collins area in 1855, and held annual meetings into the early years of the 20th century.

Friends of Human Progress, Waterloo: Bibliography of Printed Proceedings and Annoucements

Participants at Friends of  Human Progress Meetings, Waterloo, NY, 1849-1871

North Collins Friends of Human Progress, 1855-1930s

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Friends of Human Progress

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